Laura Houcque (originally Ouk) Prabhakar is a Southeast Asian educator in Chicago. She represented the Cambodian Association of Illinois on the steering committee led by Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Chicago that advocated for the TEAACH Act in Illinois. Laura is currently involved with building curricular resources to provide Illinois educators with implementation tools. Generational trauma has motivated Laura to break the cycle and to rewrite the narrative as she hopes to also raise awareness of the Cambodian diaspora in general.

In this episode, Laura describes her upbringing from France to the U.S navigating what it means to be Khmer in a family that assimilated to American culture for survival. She also speaks about advocating the TEAACH Act in Illinois and the importance of advocating for SEAN voices within the Pan-Asian Diaspora. 

Music: Late Truth - Audio Hertz